‘That Golden Girls Show!’ Pays Hilarious Tribute Using Puppets

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show all the way up to Disney’s Winnie the Pooh.”Yet one show stands out in the company’s roster, one with special appeal to audiences of a certain age and persuasion. “The tagline is, ‘Calling all girls, gays, and grannies,’ because that’s who love that show,” Rockefeller says, referring to That Golden Girls Show!: A Puppet Parody.The show is styled as a three-episode binge, with each episode following an individual storyline and comprised of specific moments and scenarios from the hit sitcom but repackaged in “a mashup parody” style for heightened comedic effect.

And it’s all performed by puppets and puppeteers.“We’re just really going into what are the tropes and the jokes…and amplifying what is the essence of the characters and bringing that out further,” he says. “So our Rose is a bit ditzier.

Our Blanche is more promiscuous than the others. Our Dorothy is a lot more straight-laced and has those brilliant, cutting, sarcastic lines that just filter through.

And our Sophia is a lot naughtier.”The parody came to life in Rockefeller’s native Australia as part of ther annual Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.